# Distributed Availability

> The degree to which insisting on strong transactional consistency reduces availability across a distributed system.

Record: `lexicon:distributed-availability`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Atomic Boundary](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/atomic-boundary.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-distributed-availability

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [BASE/Eventual Consistency](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/base-eventual-consistency.md) and before [Durability](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/durability.md).

## Category

- [Transactions / State / Concurrency](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/transactions-state-concurrency.md)

## In tension with

- [ACID](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/acid.md)
- [ACID / Distributed Availability](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/acid-distributed-availability.md)

## Linked from

- [Transactions / State / Concurrency](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-transactions-state-concurrency.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)